Jacketed bundles of rigid beveled strip material

ABSTRACT

One or more protective jackets of cushioning and confining plastic may be provided for encapsulating and keeping in order sharply projecting ends of a bundle of bevel cut wooden strips, such as brick mold or fence pickets. The jacket or jackets maintain the strips in an orderly, compact arrangement, with the beveled tips desirably disposed in a common plane.

United States Patent [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 7/l874 Baldwin.......................

[72] Inventor William T. Pearce Route 1, Box 660, Rogue River, Oreg. 97537 pickets. The

[21] A 859637 8/1950 Stewart [22] Flled Sept. 22, 1969 I/l962 Amundson [45] Patented Dec. 14, 1971 5/1969 Frosoy Continuation-impart of application Ser. No. 749,669, Aug, 2, 1968, ow ab d d Primary Examiner-William T. Dixson, Jr. This application Sept. 22, 1969, Ser. No. ya en M- Crew 859,637

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JACKETED BUNDLES F RIGID BEVELED STRIP MATERIAL Continuation-impart of Ser. No. 749,669, filed Aug. 2, 1968, now abandoned, for 45 Brick Mold Protector.

This invention relates to protective end jackets for bundles of identical wooden strips of standard dimensions, which are precut, on one end at least, on a bevel.

While not limited to such use, the protective jackets are primarily intended for use on bundles of strips which are to become vertical and horizontal members of door frames, and

. which are cut to standard lengths at the factory, and bundled for shipping. These strips commonly carry some ornamental configuration on the face which is to be exposed, in which case they are called brick mold.

Brick mold is generally thicker along one longitudinal margin than the other, the figured face being the face whose margins lie in different planes. When brick mold of this kind is bundled, the strips are paired, with the figured surfaces facing one another and a thick margin of one strip abutting a thin margin of the other, the arrangement being a reciprocal one, so that the paired strips provide a composite body of uniform thickness. If the strips of such a pair are arranged coterminously, the beveled faces will cross at right angles midway of their lengths. With such a pair treated as a basic unit, rectangular bundles involving any multiple of four strips can be arranged, with individual pointed projections at the four upper corners. Such a rectangular arrangement is generally regarded as most desirable, even for strips of uniform thickness.

Whether shipped by truck or by rail, the exposed projections on the strips are extremely vulnerable during loading and unloading, and in transit. A slight disfigurement can make a strip unsaleable, even though, for practical purposes, the utility of the strip is unimpaired.

It is a primary object of the invention to combine with a bundle of rigid level cut strips one or more jackets which will comfortably and snugly fit and protect the beveled projections of the bundle. A bundle of vertical frame pieces generally has 45 projections at its upper end only. A bundle of horizontal frame pieces have 45 projections at both ends, and requires identical jackets at both ends. With the strips arranged as described, a jacket which fits the associated beveled ends will maintain the bevel tips in a common plane, and the end of the strips in a compact, orderly arrangement.

Vertical frame pieces of brick mold are generally cut on a bevel of l2to l4 at their lower ends. A similar jacket, of different end contour, maybe provided to fit the lower end of the bundle. Where two jackets are used, provision is desirably made for tying the jackets to one another.

It is a feature that each jacket not only protects the bundle against physical damage, but also protect it against exposure to water damage. This is especially important because it is the crosscut, beveled end of a strip which is most absorbent, and hence most vulnerable to damage by wetting.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear. In the drawings forming part of this specification, the single FIGURE is a fragmentary, perspective view showing two protective jackets, each of which constitutes a practical and advantageous embodiment of the invention, the upper one being shown as about to be applied to a bundle of brick mold and broken away intermediate its ends for compactness of illustration and in order to leave the upper end of the bundle illustration and in order to leave the bundle fully exposed to view, and the lower one being shown as applied.

The jacket of substantial thickness is adapted to encapsulate the bundle 12, of vertical brick mold pieces. The illustrative bundle consists of l6 identical strips of brick mold arranged in a compact and orderly form, rectangular in cross section which is presently regarded by manufacturers as one of the most advantageous forms of brick mold bundle. Each strip is cut at is upper end on a 45 bevel with the longer, pointed end lying in the thicker margin. The strips are arranged in pairs, like the strips 21 and 31, 22 and 32, 23 and 33, and 24, and 34 with the beveled upper end faces of each such pair crossing at right angles to one another midway of their lengths. There are four strip layers of four strips each, the corner strips 21, 24, 51 and 54 presenting 45 comer projections, while other pairs of strips, such as 22 and 23, 31 and 32, 33 and 34 etc., which have their longer faces disposed in abutting relation, jointly present projections.

The lower ends of the vertical frame pieces are cut on a 14 bevel, the cuts making angles of 76 and 104 respectively, with the outer and inner faces of the strips.

The jacket ill], which is desirably a strong, firm but cushioning, jacket, composed of a comparatively soft plastic such as polyethylene, and having a substantial thickness, say of the order of Vsinch at the tips and 1/16 inch in the other areas, has its upper end formed as a pocket which engages and snugly fits against every exposed face of every strip from the beveled tip down to or beyond the lower ends of the: beveled faces.

On three sides the jacket has a continuous skirt portion 14, integral with the pocket, which extends downward continuously for a substantial distance, say, 6 to 10 inches, to partial embrace, and to protect, the upper end of, the bundle. At the fourth side, the side nearest the observer, the pocket has integral with it a flap 16 which partially covers that side of the bundle, the flap and the three connected sides of the skirt jointly forming a split skirt:

The entire skirt, including the flap, is thickened along its lower boundary to provide bead portions 17, so that a tie cord, wrapped tightly around the jacket just above the bead, will be retained on the jacket by the bead portions.

The flap is divided from the remainder of the shirt but may advantageously be of the same length. The skirt is desirably formed with holes or eyes 15 for the reception of cord (not shown) whereby the jacket 10 may be tied to a jacket 60 on the opposite end of the bundle. As many holes or eyes may be provided in the split skirt as may be convenient as useful.

The jacket 10, besides serving as a shock absorbing protector for the bundle end, serves, as previously noted, as a waterprotective enclosure.

Each projection on the jacket 10 is marked with the numbers of the strip projections which it covers, with the post script 11 added.

A second jacket 60, generally like the jacket 10, but of different end contour, is shown as enclosing and fitting the lower end of the bundle. Since the lower ends of the brick mold strips are beveled to conform to the conventional slope of a door or window sill (about 14), the low-er end of the bundle is also of irregular contour, and the end of the jacket 60 is made to fit this contour. The jacket 60 fits snugly around the lower end of the bundle, being structurally like the jacket 10. Like the jacket 10, the jacket 60 has a split skirt composed of parts 62 and 64, and the parts 63 and 64 are formed with tie-cordretaining beads 66, and with eyes or holes 68 through which it may be tied to the jacket 10.

The particular 16 strip bundle is not the only one to which the invention may be applied. The jackets can be made to fit bundles having projections of many other over all configurations and arrangements within the scope of the invention.

The invention is characterized by the fact that a protective jacket is provided for a composite bundle in which each member or each pair of adjacent members includes a vulnerable projection, the jacket being formed to fit and encapsulate every one of the projections, engaging each projection on every one of its exposed faces 1 have described what I believe to be the best embodiment of my invention.

lclaim:

l. A protected solid shipping bundle of numerous rigid wooden strips, in which all strips are identical in size and shape, and each is formed at one end, at least, with a sharply beveled face which terminates in a sharp edge, the strips being arranged in the bundle with the beveled corners of the strips projecting singly and/or in abutting rellation beyond the unbeveled body portions of the strips, and :a protective jacket for the strips designed to preserve the shape of every strip, the jacket having substantial thickness and being composed of a firm and tough, but cushioning, plastic material, and including numerous pocket portions all of which pocket portions terminate in pointed tips that lie in a common plane, for mutual reinforcement, said pockets combining to fit and engage all exposed faces of every individual tip and every group of tips whose sharp edges lie in a common line, said jacket also surrounding the bundle for a further substantial portion of its length.

2. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 1, in which the jacket is composed of polyethylene.

3. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 1 in which the jacket has a split skirt portion of substantial length-all of whose segments are integral with the jacket and combine to extend around the bundle.

4. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which the skirt portion of the jacket is thickened along its free margin to provide a tie-cord-retaining bead.

5. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which the compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which the skirt portion of the jacket is provided with holes or eyes through which the jacket may be tied to a jacket on the other end of the bundle by means of cords.

6. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which each strip has its opposite ends beveled. and the bundle includes two jackets of the kind set forth enclosing the opposite ends of the bundle, said jackets adapted to be tied to one another, and to be tied individually to the bundle.

7. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim I in which each strip has a thick margin and a thin margin and in which the beveled tip of each strip terminates at its thick margin, the strips being paired throughout, in each instance to oppose a thin margin with a thick margin, so that each pair presents a combined structure of uniform thickness, the beveled faces of each pair crossing one another midway of the length of the beveled ends of the paired strips.

EUINTHED s'mrrs PATENT @WMJE @EREKMQME WE MERREQTMPN Patent No. $627,119 Dated December 1% 1971 William '3? Pearce Inventor(s) It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:

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FORM O-1050 (10-69) 

1. A protected solid shipping bundle of numerous rigid wooden strips, in which all strips are identical in size and shape, and each is formed at one end, at least, with a sharply beveled face which terminates in a sharp edge, the strips being arranged in the bundle with the beveled corners of the strips projecting singly and/or in abutting relation beyond the unbeveled body portions of the strips, and a protective jacket for the strips designed to preserve the shape of every strip, the jacket having substantial thickness and being composed of a firm and tough, but cushioning, plastic material, and including numerous pocket portions all of which pocket portions terminate in pointed tips that lie in a common plane, for mutual reinforcement, said pockets combining to fit and engage all exposed faces of every individual tip and every group of tips whose sharp edges lie in a common line, said jacket also surrounding the bundle for a further substantial portion of its length.
 2. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 1, in which the jacket is composed of polyethylene.
 3. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 1 in which the jacket has a split skirt portion of substantial length all of whose segments are integral with the jacket and combine to extend around the bundle.
 4. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which the skirt portion of the jacket is thickened along its free margin to provide a tie-cord-retaining bead.
 5. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which the compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which the skirt portion of the jacket is provided with holes or eyes through which the jacket may be tied to a jacket on the other end of the bundle by means of cords.
 6. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 3 in which each strip has its opposite ends beveled, and the bundle includes two jackets of the kind set forth enclosing the opposite ends of the bundle, said jackets adapted to be tied to one another, and to be tied individually to the bundle.
 7. A protected compact shipping bundle as set forth in claim 1 in which each strip has a thick margin and a thin margin and in which the beveled tip of each strip terminates at its thick margin, the strips being paired throughout, in each instance to oppose a thin margin with a thick margin, so that each pair presents a combined structure of uniform thickness, the beveled faces of each pair crossing one another midway of the length of the beveled ends of the paired strips. 